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Page 139It is remarkable that in the case of an offence like drunkenness, for which (if the
Commissioners' term includes drunkenness with aggravations) over 54,000
persons were sent to prison, the difference in the total from that of the year before
was ...

Page 140The Governor of Exeter Prison attributes the decrease to “the system of giving
offenders time to pay fines instead of sending them to prison at once.” The
Governor of Hereford Prison considers it “the direct result of an unwillingness on
the part ...

Page 143Of the 7,789 male prisoners between the ages of 16 and 21 received into prison
during the year, 518 were sentenced to detention in a Borstal Institution, and
1,679 were treated under the “ modified” Borstal System, the great bulk of the ...